Backyard Flyer - Drone Trajectory Control with Python
This video is a demonstration of a flight board computer program for a drone developed with python. It controls the drone to take off, fly on a geometrically predetermined path and land, in a simulated backyard environment.
It is possible to choose between 3 shapes, square triangle or circle, and control its side/radius.
The code is also suitable to run on a PX4 quadcopter autopilot, or any other MAVLink compatible drone, with very few modifications.
This project is the first of the Udacity's Nanodegree Flying Car and Autonomous Flight Engineer.
The original project specifications require the drone to fly on a 10 square meter box flight plan controlled by an event-driven programming approach. I extended the logic to include triangular and circular patterns through extra command-line arguments that allow the shape and size configuration.
Project URL: https://github.com/computationalcore/...
Music attribution
Newer Wave by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
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